STEP Cutover Lead

Major accountabilities:

• Own and govern the end-to-end STEP cutover strategy, roadmap, governance model, and decision framework, with primary focus on SAP S/4HANA and related SAP ecosystem components while ensuring alignment with non-SAP applications and business processes.

• Develop, maintain, and continuously refine the integrated STEP cutover plan, including task sequencing, dependencies, ownership, business freeze activities, data migration, transports, integrations, infrastructure readiness, validation steps, and go/no-go milestones.

• Coordinate cutover preparation across SAP functional, technical, integration, data, security, quality, testing, infrastructure, business, vendor, and non-SAP application teams to ensure all pre-cutover and post-cutover activities are complete, validated, and traceable.

• Plan and lead mock cutovers, dress rehearsals, and cutover simulations to validate execution timing, dependencies, resource availability, business readiness, data conversion outcomes, technical readiness, contingency procedures, and escalation paths.

• Lead cutover execution during the go-live window, operating the cutover command structure, tracking progress against the detailed plan, managing risks and issues in real time, driving timely decisions, and escalating blockers to programme leadership as required.

• Ensure cutover activities comply with relevant regulatory, quality, security, data privacy, validation, auditability, and business continuity requirements, including appropriate documentation, controls, approvals, and evidence for validated and business-critical environments.

• Define and coordinate fallback, contingency, recovery, and business continuity approaches for critical SAP and non-SAP cutover scenarios, ensuring decision points, responsibilities, communication routes, and operational impacts are clearly understood.

• Provide transparent cutover readiness, execution, risk, and issue reporting to business, technology, quality, vendor, and programme stakeholders, and coordinate a structured transition into hypercare, post-go-live validation, lessons learned, and operational handover.

• Responsible for performing all assigned activities in compliance with GxP regulations, company SOPs, and data integrity requirements.